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PLOW. No. 369,981. Patented Sept. 13 188.

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' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM L. OASADAY, OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 369,981, dated September 13, 1887.

Application filed April 6, 1887. Serial No. 233,820. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM L. CASADAY, a citizen of the United States, residing at South Bend, in the county of St. Joseph and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Flows; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in plows, and has for its object to provide a plow with means for attaching straight handles, said means of attachment and the handles being so constructed that said handles are capable of a vertical adjustment, and may be used either with a right or left hand plow.

A further object of my invention is to provide an adjustable handle'brace connecting the handles, and to which the rear end of the beam is secured, so that said handle-brace may be adjusted to accommodate itself to the vertical adjustment of the handles; and a further object of my invention is to provide a horizontally-adj ustable beam and means for secur ing same to the handle-brace, whereby said beam may be adjusted so that the plow will run more or less to land, as desired.

With these objects in view my said invention consists in certain novelty in the construction and arrangement of the various parts, all of which I will now proceed to point out and describe, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a side elevation of a plow embodying my invention, the mold-board being partially shown in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same; Fig. 3, a rear elevation; and Figs. 4, 5, and 6 are details of parts of my said invention.

Referring to said drawings, A represents the plow-standard, B the mold-board, and O the landside, of a right-hand plow. Said moldboard and landside may be of any desired construction.

D is a handlebracket having its surface approximate to the mold-board, conforming to the shape of the rear side of said mold-board, and attached thereto by suitable bolts, 1) 1), secured in bolt-holes b b in the bracket. The upper and lower portions of the bracket D project out from the mold-board, and are pro vided on their outer sides with flat bearings d d in the same plane with each other, and in a suitable plane to receive the mold-board h handle. The lower bearing, (1, is provided with a slot, d approximately in a line with the line of the mold-board handle and open at its upper end. The upper bearing, d, is provided with a slot, (1 at right angles to the line of the slot d.

(1* is a bolt-hole in the upper projecting portion of the bracket. In this bolt-hole is secured one end of a brace-rod, E, the other end of which is secured to the landside.

c is a lug or upward projection on the rear portion of the landside opposite the bearing d of the bracket. Said lug is provided with a fiat bearing, 0', having a bolt-hole, 0.

F F are similarly-formed straight handles of the same length, and are provided in theirlower ends with bolt-holesff. The lower end of the landside rests against the bearing a, and is secured thereto by a bolt, 6, passing through the bolt-holesfc and provided with a suit-able nut. The mold-board handle rests against the bearings d d on the handle-bracket, and is secured to the lower bearing, (1, by a bolt, G, passing through the bolt-holefand engag ing with the slot d said bolt being provided with a suitable nut. Said handle is also secured to the bearing d by a bolt, G, having a suitable clamping-nut and passing through the bolt-holef in the handle and the slot d". A similar bolt-hole, f, is formed in the land side handle, so that said handle may be attached to the handle-bracket when said handles are used with a left-hand plow. By means of this manner of attaching the handles they are capable of a vertical adjustment, as hereinafter described.

H is an adjustable handle-brace extending from handle to handle at the desired point. Said handle-brace is provided on' each end with downwardly-projecting extensions H H, having a series of perforations, h h, in each ex tension, and is secured to the handles by bolts h h, having suitable clamping-nuts and pass ing through said perforations and bolt-holes f f in the handles.

I is a continuous longitudinal slot in the handle-brace, formed in two curves meeting at the center of the brace.

i is a transverse strengthening brace or partition on the under side and at the center of the handle-brace.

. K is the plow-beam, pivotally secured to the top of the standard by a bolt, 70. The rear end of the beam, rests on top of the handle.

brace H, and is provided with a longitudinal slot, K.

L is a bolt provided with asuitable nut and passing through the slot K of the beam and slot I of the handle-brace. By means of this bolt the rear end of the beam can be secured to any desired point on said handle-brace.

As shown in the drawings, the handles are adjusted at their lowest position, the bolt G resting in the lower part of the slot d and the handle-brace having its securing-bolts passing through the lowest perforations in the downwardly-projecting extensions. To raise the handles, the, bolts securing the handle-brace are removed and the nut on the bolt G loosened. The handles can then be raised to the desired position, the bolt G moving to the upper part of the slot d The nut on said bolt is then tightened and the handles secured as adjusted. The securing-bolts of the handlebrace are then inserted in one of the upper perforations of the extensions of said brace,

' which brace always remains in the same plane.

Instead of perforations in the extensions of the brace, slot-s may be used. To detach the handles from the plow, it is only necessary to IBIIIOW3 the bolts G and e and detach the rear end of the beam from the handle-brace. The lower slot, (1 being open at one end, it is not necessary to remove bolt G. It will thus be seen that the handles can readily and quickly be adjusted at the desired height to suit a short or tall plowman, or can be removed from the plow Without touching the bolts by which the handle-bracket is secured to the mold-board. By means of the handle-bracket constructed as above described I am able to use perfectly straight handles, which greatly cheapens the cost of the same, and as said handles are of the same length and similarly formed they may be used either with a right or left hand plow. In order to adjust the plowbeam so that the plow will run more or less to land, as desired, the nut of the bolt L is loosened and said bolt moved along in the slots I and K until the desired adjustment of said beam is atrained. The nut is then tightened and securely holds the beam in position as. adjusted.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-- I 1. In a plow, a mold-board provided on its rear side with a handle-bracket having upper and lower flat handle-bearings in the same plane, and having a slot in the lower bearing open at its upper end, and a slot in the upper bearing arranged at right angles to the line of the slot in the lower bearing and at an angle to the longitudinal line of the handles, and a landside provided with ahandle bearing having a suitable bolt-hole, in combination with similarly-formed straight handles pivotally secured at their lower ends by suitable bolts to the handle-bearing of the landside and lower bearing of the handle-bracket, and a suitable bolt having a clamping-nut and passing through the mold-board handle and slot in the upper bearing of the bracket, and

adjustably securing said handle to said bearing, all constructed and arranged substantially as shown and described, whereby said handles may be vertically adjusted.

2. In a plow, the mold-board provided with the handle-bracket D, having the fiat bearings d d, the slot d in the bearing d,having its upper end open,and the slot d in the bearing d, arranged at right angles to the line of the slot d, and the landside provided with the projecting lug 0, having the bearing a and bolthole 0 and the brace E, secured at one end to the handle-bracket and at the other end to the landside, in combination with the verticallyadjustable handles F F, provided with suitable bolts and clamping-nuts for adjustably securing said handles to the handle-bracket and landside, all constructed and arranged substantially as shown and described.

3. In a plow, a suitable standard, a moldboard provided with the handle bracket D, constructed as described, and the landside having the bearing 0, in combination with the vertically-adjustable handles F F, adjustably-secured'to the bearing 0 and bracket D, and provided with the adjustable handle-brace H, and the beam K, secured to the top of standard, and having its rear end secured to the handle-brace H, all constructed and arranged substantially as shown and described,

4, In a plow, the standard, the mold-board provided with'the handlebracket D, constructed as described, and the landside having the bearing 0', and the vertieally-adj ustable handles F F, adjustably secured to the bearing 0 and bracket D, and provided with the adjustable handle-brace H, having the continuous slot I, in combination with the horizontally-adjustable beam K,pivotally secured to the standard, and having its rear end resting on the brace H and provided with the slot- K, and the bolt L, passing through the slots K and I, and provided with a clampingnut for securing the rear end of the beam to any desired point on the handle brace, all constructed, arranged, and operating substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM L. OASADAY. Witnesses:

A. H. REMINGTON, A. D. BAKER;

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